Incisn windpipe at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
317 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1306952726
$3,718.80
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$9,297.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$1,455.89 with Molina vs $31,190.04 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $1,455.89 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,572.36 | ↓ -58% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,572.36 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,572.36 | ↓ -58% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,572.36 | ↓ -58% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $3,791.96 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $3,905.72 | ↑ +5% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $3,905.72 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage HMO | $3,943.64 | ↑ +6% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $3,981.56 | ↑ +7% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $3,981.56 | ↑ +7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $4,171.16 | ↑ +12% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $4,586.05 | ↑ +23% |
| Premera | HMO | $4,996.60 | ↑ +34% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $5,168.41 | ↑ +39% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $6,004.93 | ↑ +61% |
| First Choice | First Choice PPO | $6,982.05 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $6,982.05 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $7,344.63 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $7,401.34 | ↑ +99% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $7,437.60 | ↑ +100% |
| Premera | Signature | $11,763.64 | ↑ +216% |
| Premera | Prime | $12,028.33 | ↑ +223% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $14,783.09 | ↑ +298% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $16,357.32 | ↑ +340% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $16,357.32 | ↑ +340% |
| Regence | RealValue | $16,824.67 | ↑ +352% |
| Regence | Commercial | $18,694.08 | ↑ +403% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $18,911.88 | ↑ +409% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $22,185.64 | ↑ +497% |
| Kaiser | HMO/PPO | $22,376.16 | ↑ +502% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $31,190.04 | ↑ +739% |
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Incisn windpipe at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $2,218.76 | $4,823.42 – $7,741.04 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $3,718.80 | $1,463.18 – $15,914.98 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $5,476.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $7,691.52 | $3,839.27 – $12,755.94 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $7,711.90 | $3,694.56 – $9,402.66 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $7,691.52 | $3,839.27 – $12,284.47 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $7,691.52 | $3,850.04 – $12,755.94 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $5,944.12 | $3,839.27 – $15,322.85 |